2nd Annual Geopolitics of Technology in East Asia

2nd Annual Geopolitics of Technology in East Asia

Wednesday, November 8, 2023 | 2:00 PM - Thursday, November 9, 2023 | 5:30 PM (Pacific)

Cypress Lounge, 2nd Floor Tresidder Union

Congratulatory Remarks from Park Jin, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea

Congratulatory Remarks from Antony J. Blinken, United States Secretary of State

Geotech Conference Report
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Day One: Wednesday, November 8

 

2:00 pm — 2:05 pm            Welcome

 

    Andrew Grotto, Stanford University

 

2:05 pm — 2:10 pm             Congratulatory Remarks

 

2:10 pm — 2:25 pm            Opening Keynote

 

      Gheewhan Kim, President, Korea Foundation

 

2:25 pm — 3:35 pm            Fireside Chat: New Horizons and Challenges in South Korean Foreign Policy

 

Yung-Woo Chun, Korean Peninsula Future Forum and former National Security Advisor

 

Gi-Wook Shin, Stanford University

 

Andrew Grotto, Stanford University (moderator)

 

 

3:35 pm — 3:50 pm            Break

 

3:50 pm — 4:55 pm            The Geopolitics of Climate Change Technologies

 

Suh-yong Chung, Korea University

Won-soo Kim, Taejae Future Consensus Institute & former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and the High Representative for Disarmament

 

David "Vance" Wagner, Energy Foundation China (Moderator)

 

4:55 pm — 5:00 pm            Wrap-up and Look-Ahead

 

5:00 pm — 6:30 pm              Cocktail Reception

 

 

Day Two: Thursday, November 9

 

9:25 am — 9:30 am             Welcome

 

Andrew Grotto, Stanford University

 

9:30 am — 10:20 am            National Strategies for AI Governance: U.S., European,                          ……………………………and Korean Approaches

 

Kevin Allison, Minvera Technology Policy Advisors

Ki Tae Nam, Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology (Korea) & Seoul National University

Florence G'Sell, Stanford University (Visiting), University of Lorraine & Sciences Po

 

Heikki Hietala, Stanford University (Moderator)

 

10:20 am — 11:20 am         The APEC Summit: Goals and Deliverables in Tech

 

Jaemin Lee, Professor of Law, Seoul National University, Ambassador for Economic Affairs

Gita Wirjawan, Stanford University & former Minster of Trade of the Republic of Indonesia

 

Michael Beeman, Stanford University (moderator)

 

11:20 am — 11:30 am          Break

 

11:30 am — 12:15 pm          Day Two Keynote

 

Thea Kendler, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration

 

12:15 pm — 1:15 pm            Lunch

 

1:15 pm — 2:25 pm              The CHIPS Act, 1 Year Later

 

Bruce Andrews, Corporate Vice President and Chief Government Affairs Officer, Intel & former Deputy Secretary of Commerce

Sang Soo Son, Vice President, SK Hynix

Ki Tae Nam, a member of presidential advisory committee for science and technology; Seoul National University

 

Claire Sanderson, Senior Director, Global Government Affairs, TSMC (Moderator)

 

2:25 pm — 2:45 pm              Paper presentation: A Framework for Assessing                  Vulnerabilities                         Vulnerabilities in the Quantum Computing Materials               Supply Chain                           Supply Chain

 

                                                                Min-Ha Lee, Stanford University

 

2:45 pm — 3:00 pm               Break

 

3:00 pm — 4:10 pm               China and De-Risking: Allied Views

 

Shihoko Goto, The Wilson Center

So Jeong Kim, Institute for National Security Strategy (Korea)

Won-soo Kim, Taejae Future Consensus Institute and former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and the High Representative for Disarmament

Oriana Skylar Mastro, Stanford University

 

Andrew Grotto, Stanford University (moderator)

 

4:10 pm — 5:20 pm               Industrial Policy for Critical Technologies: Lessons

                  from the CHIPS Act and Inflation Reduction Act

 

Jaemin Lee, Professor of Law, Seoul National University, Ambassador for Economic Affairs

Celia Merzbacher, Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C)

Ji-Won Son, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)

Kharis Templeman, Hoover Institution

 

Andrew Grotto, Stanford University (moderator)

 

5:20 pm — 5:30 pm               Wrap-up

A Framework for Assessing Vulnerabilities in the Quantum Computing Materials Supply Chain by Min-Ha Lee, Stanford University
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Regulating Artificial Intelligence: Lessons from Medical Devices by Kevin Allison, Minerva Technology Policy Advisors and Stephen Gilbert, Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Digital Health Technische Universität Dresden
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